Illustration inspiration

"Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated." - Auguste Rodin ~ artwork by Carlos Ortega Elizalde - Artist

MayanKin Tzolkin 20 Solar Seals with brief description

Tezcatlipoca by hunterkiller on dA.Tezcatlipoca - aztec god of Moon and death. But this illustration is little fusion between mayan An Puch god - (god of decay and death, without eyes) and aztec god Tezcatlipoca.

Quetzal by Fer Aguilera Reyes(Pig Machine)

Classic Mexican Art Jesús Helguera Mexican painter who married the heroic Aztec image to Catholicism. For any one growing up in SoCal in the this style of art was everywhere. It completely reminds me of LA and the Chicano culture boom of the period.